Tabloid is an American documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Errol Morris

Errol Morris

Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...

. The film tells the story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who was accused of kidnaping and raping Kirk Anderson, an American Mormon missionary

Mormon missionary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with over 52,000 full-time missionaries worldwide, as of the end of 2010...

. The case became a major tabloid story and a battle between The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper which was founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is often referred to in popular parlance. It had an...

 and The Daily Express in Britain. The film is based on interviews of McKinney conducted by Morris.

External links

• Errol Morris Q&A for Tabloid at TIFF '10
• Morris tells Roger Ebert how his idea for Tabloid grew from a sentence in a newspaper.
• Errol Morris Q&A at Tabloid - DOC NYC 2010
• Joyce McKinney Joins Errol Morris at DOC NYC 2010
• Tabloid Producer Mark Lipson interview at BFI London Film Festival 2010
• Official Trailer